It’s easy to feel that the way the world currently is – is the way that it has always been and forever will be. But in the first week of March in 1970, two things reportedly changed in Santaquin.
In the 11th Edition, Volume 1 of the Santaquin Chronicle, they report that the Utah Power & Light Company power plant had ceased operation due to high costs.
The wooden pipe that had carried the water to the hydroelectric plant had become quite old and the cost to replace it was too much for U P & L.
This story is being published only weeks after Mayor Olson, working with the State, has managed to secure rights for the City to use the old maintenance path, which had serviced this wooden pipe, as a walking and biking trail for the community.
The second change that had been reported was mailboxes and “Rural Delivery Service.”
In this new world of near same-day, straight-to-your-door delivery and instant communication, it can be difficult to imagine having to wait weeks for a letter or needing to go all the way to the post office to pick up your packages.
Gone are the days of the paper routes, when boys and girls could earn a few dollars by tossing newspapers onto driveways.
The world changes. In fifty years, what things will our grandchildren read in their newspapers? What aspects of our lives will seem euphoric, bazaar, or ancient?